Martin Wolfe

Here is Martin Wolfe in the newspaper FT, and my comment which I submitted to this website:

...........(Mr. Wolfe, in FT)........

"Here is the biggest question about the eurozone: can we envisage a set of reforms that are not only politically feasible and economically workable, but would let it prosper, as it is. If so, what might they be?

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 worldcitizenjs | June 13 2:58pm | Permalink

that let it prosper "as it is." This means that fundamental change is ruled out, but is not this attitude just the problem. I think there is an underlying truth to these first few words of Wolfe's complicated article with all the fancy terms (I see "insurance...adjustment...federal [and] transfer" without even reading the whole piece). We want to redesign things. But we also want to keep everything "as it is." We do not want to ask basic questions. Everything in Europe must remain as it is. After all, the system has worked so well (really?) in the past. I caution you. Working well in the past does not prove that something will also work well in the future. Why not consider fundamental social reform NOW? Is that against your religion? Are you all that lacking in imagination?

I kind of forgot to make the first sentence a proper sentence. Wolfe is saying he wants only the kind of reforms that let the system (actually he said "eurozone" but fortunately I did not comprehend that constraint on my imagination), or the economy, prosper "as is." (paraphrase)

What I do not think he understands is he is giving away his bias. Everything has at all costs remain to "as it is.
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p.s. The only thing that truly must always remain as it is is grammar. And even that can be played with a little!